B5254 crash in South Ribble on 19 July 2002 at 20:10 involving an Aprilia motorcycle
An Aprilia motorcycle crashed on the B5254 in South Ribble at 20:10 on Friday 19 July 2002. The 16-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2002
- Friday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Aprilia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70138, longitude -2.68478, in the PR25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leyland. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Ambrose, South Ribble, PR25 4SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204C072102
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5254
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 1998.
Slight
Mazda B2200 crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 8 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199804C042998
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 6 October 2015
10 m awayRef 201504SC15263
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 10 January 2022
11 m awayRef 2022041130812
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 28 January 2023
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Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 27 November 2023
17 m awayRef 2023041379721
Slight
Car crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 12 October 1979
20 m awayRef 1979040JD1577
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200204C072102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2002.